5 October – The Valley is now open and on the market!

Our social housing development, The Valley, in Stanmore, Winchester is now complete and is on the market. UBU worked with Snug Architects and Winchester City Council’s New Homes Delivery Team to produce a comprehensive landscape masterplan to deliver 76 new affordable homes.  The scheme provides a mixture of 2 and 3 bedroom houses and 1, 2 and 3 bedroom flats on a very steep challenging site in The Valley.  We designed a contemporary and robust landscape that knits the new development into the existing open parkland. The landscape sympathetically responds to the architecture by flowing up to and capturing the development as part of the broader parkland setting, helping to reduce the perceived scale of the buildings and soften their impact on the landscape. The scheme was developed through a comprehensive process of public engagement with the local community and will deliver much needed affordable housing for the city by realising the potential of an under-utilised open space.